Multilingual Topic Detection and Tracking: Successful Research Enabled by Corpora and Evaluation
Charles L. Wayne · 2000
Topic Detection and Tracking (TDT) refers to automatic techniques for locating topically related material in streams of data such as newswire and broadcast news.DARPA-sponsored research has made enormous progress during the past three years, and the tasks have been made progressively more difficult and realistic.Well-designed corpora and objective performance evaluations have enabled this success.